if the Seals had this available when they were after Osama Ben Laden...
A jet blast from the past, 1956 U-2 camera specs... compare and contrast...
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/camera-aerial-hycon-73b-lockheed-u-2c
.The B camera had a 36-inch focal length and resolved features as small as .75 meters (2.5 feet) from an altitude of 19.3 kilometers (65,000 feet). Designed by Dr. James Baker, the panoramic B camera had revolutionary image-movement compensation that allowed for the motion of the aircraft and the vibration of the engine, as well as the movement of the highly sensitive, fast, and ultra thin Kodak film also especially designed for the project. Shooting through seven glass encased windows in the belly of the U-2, the B camera recorded everything along a 3,500 km (2,700 mile) course, up to 200 km (125 miles) wide, and it could provide up to 4000 pairs of stereoscopic photographs.
I tried to find these U2 camera/lens specs before I posted on what the number for the curve would be on supposed ball earth... so thanks for posting!
It’s like we have to reinvent the wheel because scientism is such dumbed-down NASA Islam lovin’ climate change lovin’ nonsense.
The amazing things that they were able to do with analog tech really was remarkable. You didn’t see that in consumer photography until the digital age.
But even so they couldn’t see through clouds or dust.
That is the real break through here.